Downstream

that’s why I say that none of
my sex will ever accomplish
that particular stunt.’ But
then, of course, in 1926
Gertrude Ederle became the
first sportswoman to cross the
Channel. She wore silk trunks
and ‘a narrow brassiere’
(which she removed once she
got going), making her
possibly the first
sportswoman to swim in what
would eventually become the
bikini. Kellerman later said